mrj

Egyptian

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈmiɾjit/ → /ˈmiʔjiʔ/ → /ˈmeʔja/ → /ˈmeʔjə/

Verb
U7
r		 A2

 3ae inf.

  1. (transitive, of family members, rulers and subjects, or people and gods) to love (someone), to have affection for, to be fond of
    • The Stela of Inhuretnakht, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities 1783:
      ir
      t      		 n&n&f zA
      f      		 mrA19i i
      f      		 d
      b i
      jrt.n n.f zꜣ.f smsw.f mr(j).f dbj
      What his eldest beloved son Debi made for him.
  2. (transitive) to love (something abstract: truth, life, goodness, battle, etc.)
  3. (transitive) to be fond of, to love (something one possesses)
  4. (transitive) to want, to desire (something one does not possess)
  5. (transitive) to desire to be in (a place)
  6. (transitive, with infinitive) to want (to do something)
  7. (transitive, with sḏm.f) to want, to wish (that something be done)

Usage notes

The imperfective and perfective nominal forms of this word can be used after m at the start of a sentence to introduce a conditional or comparative noun clause.

Inflection
Conjugation of mrj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: mr, geminated stem: mrr
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
mrt, mrj
 mrw, mr
 mrt, mrwt, mryt
 mr
 mr, mry
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
mr8, mrr8
 ḥr mrt, ḥr mrj
 m mrt, m mrj
 r mrt, r mrj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect mr.n
 mrw, mr, mry
 consecutive mr.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative mrt, mryt
perfective3 mr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 mr.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective mr, mry
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 mrw, mr, mry
 mrw, mr, mry
 potentialis1 mr.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive mr, mry
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect mr.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective mrw1, mry, mr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 mr
 mry, mr
imperfective mrr, mrry, mrrw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 mrr, mrrj6, mrry6
 mrr, mrrw5
prospective mrw1, mry, mr, mrtj7
 — mrwtj1 4, mrtj4, mrt4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.
  8. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mrj  
U7
r		 N36
U7
N36
U7
r
U7
r		 A2
U7A2
U7
N36
S
mrj mrj mrj mrj mrj mrj mrj mrj
[Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [since the Old Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [Amarna Period]

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Demotic: mr

References
  • “mri̯ (lemma ID 72470)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 98.12–101.13
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 111
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 374.
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